For someone who grew up a train ride away from New York City, I have rarely set foot on the island. So when the opportunity to spend an evening at the Metropolitan Pavilion arose, I jumped on it. The host was charity:water, and I was honored to be a part of their night. After a full day of set up, the event was a fantastic success. The guests drew a good deal of media attention to the world water crisis, and raised almost half a million dollars that will go to the implementers that charity: partners with. That includes Living Water International, and means that I will get to see what it all adds up to very soon. It's so amazing that a fun night in a great city can mean life for people half a world away.
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- I am a twenty-something who stumbled upon a bit of passion during an eighteen day trip to East Africa with Living Water International in the summer of 2007. In Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda I came to know many people who have very simply fallen on impossible circumstances. I saw children there drinking water I wouldn't feed to an animal. I photographed little girls waiting along the roadside for their turn at the pump when they should have been in school. I held a tiny baby named Mercy who could not hold up her head due to heat exhaustion and dehydration. It really bothered me then, and it still does. My ambition is very simple - to do whatever I can to get the resources we have to meet the desperate need that they have. It's not a hard equation. Dollars mean water, and as I learned in Africa - WATER IS LIFE.
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